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Having taken 2 dozen Waymo rides, it’s all it’s cracked up to be. Confident driving, feels safe, clean. I just hope Google doesn’t decide to just turn around an

Having taken 2 dozen Waymo rides, it’s all it’s cracked up to be. Confident driving, feels safe, clean. I just hope Google doesn’t decide to just turn around and kill it one day.

gambiting 3y ago
Of course they will. It's been billions spent on development to just offer you a slightly cheaper taxi ride, with no clear path to any kind of viable commercial service beyond "ok-ish" taxi provider in few American cities. Someone will get bored of it eventually and it will get shut down.
- xnx 3y ago
  No Way[mo] that it gets shut down. Possibly split off and IPO'ed, but no one is going to throw away technology that is very close to cracking a multi-hundred billion dollar market.
- TillE 3y ago
  > no clear path The path is building an entire centrally-directed transit network out of custom vehicles. Waymo currently doesn't look anything like that because they're still doing R&D on the critical technology, but if we have good self-driving even in just nice weather, it's very easy to imagine a radical transformation of transit. Of course you can make money on that.
  - gambiting 3y ago
    >> it's very easy to imagine a radical transformation of transit Really? How? Because I don't see it at all, and I don't think it's "very easy" either. All they have created is a very slightly cheaper taxi service. How does that transform anything? You could be taking a taxi instead of driving everywhere right now - why aren't you?(not literally you I mean people in general) Is that going to change if the ride is couple dollars cheaper? Of course not.
kart23 3y ago
waymo really isnt that confident. No way the avg human driver would be as hesitant as this. https://youtu.be/Y6GxDr0L-64?t=1589 https://youtu.be/Y6GxDr0L-64?t=1589 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN0MLclnWa0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN0MLclnWa0 https://youtu.be/XOuG1MQSvYM?t=1287 https://youtu.be/XOuG1MQSvYM?t=1287
- huytersd 3y ago
  If those are the best examples you can find then Waymo is in a good place.

Having taken 2 dozen Waymo rides, it’s all it’s cracked up to be. Confident driving, feels safe, clean. I just hope Google doesn’t decide to just turn around and kill it one day.

gambiting 3y ago

Of course they will. It's been billions spent on development to just offer you a slightly cheaper taxi ride, with no clear path to any kind of viable commercial service beyond "ok-ish" taxi provider in few American cities. Someone will get bored of it eventually and it will get shut down.

xnx 3y ago
No Way[mo] that it gets shut down. Possibly split off and IPO'ed, but no one is going to throw away technology that is very close to cracking a multi-hundred billion dollar market.
TillE 3y ago
> no clear path The path is building an entire centrally-directed transit network out of custom vehicles. Waymo currently doesn't look anything like that because they're still doing R&D on the critical technology, but if we have good self-driving even in just nice weather, it's very easy to imagine a radical transformation of transit. Of course you can make money on that.
- gambiting 3y ago
  >> it's very easy to imagine a radical transformation of transit Really? How? Because I don't see it at all, and I don't think it's "very easy" either. All they have created is a very slightly cheaper taxi service. How does that transform anything? You could be taking a taxi instead of driving everywhere right now - why aren't you?(not literally you I mean people in general) Is that going to change if the ride is couple dollars cheaper? Of course not.

kart23 3y ago

waymo really isnt that confident. No way the avg human driver would be as hesitant as this. https://youtu.be/Y6GxDr0L-64?t=1589 https://youtu.be/Y6GxDr0L-64?t=1589 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN0MLclnWa0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN0MLclnWa0 https://youtu.be/XOuG1MQSvYM?t=1287 https://youtu.be/XOuG1MQSvYM?t=1287

huytersd 3y ago
If those are the best examples you can find then Waymo is in a good place.